Quotes from Jerry Yang

I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.

It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.

You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.

I will never be a CEO again.

Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.

Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.

I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.

I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

If you're not in the game to win, you shouldn't be in the game.

Without rain, there is no life.

Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.

I like Google.